William Boyd
British novelist of cosmopolitan range whose Any Human Heart follows a fictional writer through the whole of the twentieth century. His work blends thriller plotting with literary seriousness. He is one of the most consistently entertaining serious novelists in Britain.
Works
- Any Human HeartCentury-spanning novel of a man's life told through collected journals and artifacts
- Armadillo
- A Good Man in AfricaNovel about a British diplomat's affair and moral crisis in post-colonial West Africa
- The New ConfessionsEpisodic narrative of a man's unreliable life story from youth to old age
- Restless